Spain

Far-left extremists threw rocks and other objects at the leader of Spain’s populist VOX party, Santiago Abascal, while he was giving a speech in Madrid.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police say they have detained five men for allegedly navigating two migrant boats to the Canary Islands and being responsible for the deaths of some of its passengers.

The Spanish government is mandating masks in all “open-air spaces”, including beaches, from March 31st.

MADRID (AP) – In Madrid, the real party starts at 11 p.m. after the bars close — and curfew kicks in.

BARCELONA, Spain — If one overlooked the white face masks dotting the tightly packed crowd of music lovers, it was almost like pre-pandemic times in Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi concert hall Saturday night.

Police arrested the president of Spain’s Islamic commission, Mohamad Ayman Adlbi, on suspicion of having links to the financing of al Qaeda.

Experimenting with cutting back one workday per week is about to go nationwide in Spain — the first country in Europe to do so. A three-year pilot project will be using 50 million euros ($59 million) from the European Union’s massive coronavirus recovery fund to compensate some 200 mid-size companies as they resize their workforce or reorganize production workflows to adapt to a 32-hour working week.

Right-wing political parties in Spain have demanded an investigation into the ruling socialist party’s decision to grant federal aid to Plus Ultra, an obscure airline company with links to the socialist regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The interior ministers of the five Mediterranean countries on the front line of mass migration to Europe want their EU partners to share the burden more equitably.

Nearly 900 cattle that have been traveling the Mediterranean for two months will be killed after vets deemed them no longer fit for export.

Protests have again turned violent in Barcelona as supporters of a rap artist imprisoned for glorifying terrorism returned to the streets.

Spanish authorities say they have found and rescued 41 migrants in the past four days who tried to reach continental Europe from Africa.

Activists and members of the populist French National Rally (RN) faced down pro-migrant protestors near the Spanish border as they launched their regional election campaign.

The protests were sparked by the imprisonment of a rapper who had insulted the monarchy and praised terrorism.

MADRID — Police in Spain say 14 people were arrested in violent street protests in several cities following the arrest of Spanish rap artist Pablo Hasél, who had barricaded himself at a university with dozens of supporters to avoid prison and defend his fight for free speech.

European Commissioner for Migration Ylva Johansson admitted that just a third of bogus, rejected asylum seekers return to their home countries — and less than a third go voluntarily.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Many Europeans are desperate for a coronavirus vaccine. But not just any vaccine.

A new law proposed by the far-left party in Spain’s coalition government will make it easier for residents to change genders for official purposes. A bill sponsored by Equality Minister Irene Montero aims to make gender self-determination — no diagnosis, medical treatment or judge required — the norm, with eligibility starting at age 16. Nearly 20 countries, eight of them in the European Union, already have similar laws.

Social media giant Twitter suspended the main account of Spanish populist party VOX this week after the party launched a new campaign to push back against Islamisation.

Pope Francis sent a telegram to the archbishop of Madrid to express his condolences after a powerful gas explosion ripped through a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing four people.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Barcelona’s presidential elections have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the club said Friday.

The number of illegal migrants entering Europe decreased by 13 per cent in 2020, the lowest number since 2013 and caused mainly by the Chinese coronavirus travel restrictions.

Spain has gloated that it is being given control over the British territory of Gibraltar’s borders as part of a side deal between Boris Johnson’s administration and the European Union.

MADRID (AP) — Negotiators from Spain and the United Kingdom are in a race against the clock to clinch a deal on the post-Brexit future of Gibraltar, a speck of British territory on the southern tip of the Spanish mainland.

Police in the eastern Spanish city of Castellón de la Plana are investigating a possible radical Islamic motive behind a thwarted machete attack on Christmas day by a Moroccan national.

Spain will keep a registry of people who refuse to have a vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus, and will share the data with other European Union member-states.

NATO says that Russian military activity increased slightly this year as its jets across Europe scrambled more than 400 times.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While corks may have popped in London and Brussels over the end to a four-year saga known as Brexit, there is one rocky speck of British soil still left in limbo.

The Spanish Canary Islands saw over 8,000 migrants arrive in November, in what could be an all-time monthly record for the islands.

At a time when social media platforms boast of taking bold measures to suppress “hate speech” and “disinformation,” Catholic news website Crux reported on Monday that Twitter allowed thousands of tweets to be posted in Spain under the hashtag #FuegoAlClero, which means “Set Fire to the Clergy.”